In the May 9 issue, Anka Muhlstein writes, “What makes this exhibition so interesting is the concept of the modernity of art as it was understood by the artists of the last half of the nineteenth century.”

On the NYRblog, Ian Buruma writes: “Hamaya’s distinctive documentary photographs can be usefully contrasted with his compatriot Kansuke Yamamoto’s modernist photographic collages…. A world that is now lost forever still lives in his photographs. ”